My old readers might recognize these pictures. I reused them but with some frames and filters. I downloaded pixlr-o-matic to my laptop as well.

Ok laces...just saying I love them, on everything. But too much of laces can be very birthday-cake-looking. I like to add them in small amount but everywhere. On clothes I use black lace and in my home decoration I use white antique laces (on cusions and curtains).

The picture above shows my armwarmers I made of cut off arms from a worn out Gudrun Sjöden top, it was my favourite that I used for several years. I bought a new one last year. Must say that stripes is another obsession.

The picture below is a cuff I made of old saved laces and a broken rhinestone necklace. Under the lace is a black fabric with reflective tape. I have made another with sheer pink lace and a wide reflective tape. Perfect for night adventures.

Sorry for posting old pictures, but we are in the middle of preparing for a Halloween party for our children. I sewed black lace curtains (yes lace) and cut pieces to cover the lamps. I also started to sew a black cloak for Johan.

onsdag 28 september 2011

Autumn is the perfect time for long walks in the nature. Right now the nature is filled with scents from soil and green moss and the colours are vibrant. I and Johan skipped a healthy lunch today to take a walk by the lake.

As I bought a smartphone the other week it is now even more fun to take pictures. I downloaded a few photo apps to the phone.

These are HDR photos with different filters and frames. When it comes to function, I’m a totally nerd. When it comes to HOW it works, I don’t bother.

That thursday we went to Denmark were so exhausting. To be able to keep up with everything we should do I was awake almost a full day. The flight down to Denmark, trip to the company and the work there went well. But the travel home, sigh. One disabled flight, one late flight, one flight that were re-routed and missed, and at last another re-routed flight. On top of that two disabled credit cards, so thankfully I have a colleage with me with a working credit card. Will they ever dare to let me alone on a buissness trip after this?

Now on to the tomatoes. I got a lot of them as you can see. Here they are on the windowsill to let the sun sweep over.

The chunky russian tomatoes was peeled, crushed and put in the fridge. These are far better than the ones you buy in can. No peels, twigs and less seeds. I made my favourite tomato soup with one bin of these.

Boil the tomatoes with a cup of white wine, a cup of cream, a tablespoon of minced basil, some garlic cloves, a pinch of brown sugar, salt and pepper, add more tomatoes or water if you feel. Boil for 10 minutes and mix the soup. Very simple and tasty.

I looked for some recipes on the internet for green tomato ketchup and mixed them all and made my own. It tasted nice, until I made the bad mistake to add sugar. A metallic bitter taste occured and got worse after adding more sugar. I was about to throw it all away but it was saved with lot of salt.

Tomorrow will be a concert day. We will go to Stockholm and see Edguy, one of Johans favourite bands, and we will have our lovely friend A-L with us. That will be fun.

The day I went sick we was at the supermarket to buy food. But the store tricks the customers by displaying books and other not eatable things in the shelves. I came home with this book and read it in two days. It's a youth novel but well written. I can recognize my own youth in it, how difficult it was to fit in the crowd even if you didn't actually want to, and to be respected for the way you are.

It's a story about a bunch of very different teens in highschool that are forced to corporate in a dangerous matter, fight the evil, and catch a murderer. They're reveling lots of supernatural things around them and about themselves. That's all I can say if you would like to read it. I'm not sure you will find it in english though.

This morning Johan had to go to the village nearby were my boys live the other weeks by their father, to give O his orientation clothes. As I have nagging about the view along the road, how beautiful it is, he could fully agree. So if I'm better tomorrow morning we will take a walk with our cameras and take some pictures of this lovely view, the mist that rises over the river and the golden leaves on the trees.

Today I'm staying at home with a sore throut and fever. I will try to rest and get better to go to work tomorrow.

I would like to share a recipe with you. Its tomato marmalade with chili. Does it sounds more lika a chutney or ketchup to you? But it is marmalade to be served with biscuits and cheese. It doesn't even taste much tomato at all, but sweet and fruity. The original recipe had red tomatoes in it and looked red brown. I used yellow and that made it look tastier.

Tomato marmalade1 kg yellow tomatoes2 red chili fruits5 cloves1 kg sugar with pectin1 teasp vanilla sugarPeel the tomatoes and cut them in pieces. Cut the chili in halves and remove the seeds, then slice. Mix all ingredients in a saucepan except the vanilla and boil for 8 minutes. Remove the foam on top and add the vanilla. Finished!

Ah, it really feels refreshing to change the very old look on the blogg. I needed to change the background to something more autumn like. I sat a whole evening and painted leaves. I scanned them and played along in photoshop clipping and glueing without sticky fingers. This is one of the leaves.

The header is the oldest thing on the blogg and a part of another life so it was necessary to change it. But I'm not ready with the transformation yet. I wan't it to be more "me".

Yesterday I had harvest time, due to frost warnings. But no frost this night. These are kidney beans drying on a siler tray, this amount is record for me (thanks for horse shit). These are a local sort from Rajma in India. A very different climate from were they grows now.

This summer has been very successful in my vegetable garden. These monsters below can tell you that. But , they are not to eat, they are not eatable either. I have plans for them, I will save them for halloween, tell you no more you will see later what I'll do with theese.

I mentioned last week about an auction I went to with Johans mother. As I said I would do, I came home with a lot of junk. A bicycle for Oskar in pieces, needing som mending (leave that to Johan...) a stray basket and a box full of broken jewellery. This auction was very long and exhausting so Johans mother bought a pair of iron garden chairs for us to sit on. I love these because you can rock them (was that right?). Anyway she gave them to us. I will give them a makeover with some paint in winter.